Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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158. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when he will announce the allocations to youth organisations arising from the additional €1.1 million current expenditure announced in the Budget Statement 2016 on 13 October 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41951/15]

Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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159. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when he will announce the allocations to youth organisations arising from the additional €2.25 million capital expenditure announced in the 2016 Budget Statement on 13 October 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41952/15]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 158 and 159 together.

My Department administers a range of funding schemes and programmes to support the provision of youth services to young people throughout the country including those from disadvantaged communities. The funding schemes support national and local youth work provision to some 380,000 young people and involve approximately 1,400 youth work staff in 477 projects and 40,000 volunteers working in youth work services and communities throughout the country. In 2015, current funding of €49.78m has been provided to my Department for these schemes. Capital funding of €0.5m was also made available to my Department to support capital projects in the youth services.

I am pleased to advise the Deputy that Budget 2016 has provided an additional €1.1m in current funding to my Department to support the provision of youth services. This additional funding will be used for programmes that target disadvantaged young people and to assist national youth organisations in their work to support local voluntary youth services.

My Department has commenced work on the detailed allocations for the national youth organisations and local services and every effort is being made to notify youth organisations and projects of their 2016 allocation as soon as possible.

An additional €2.25m in capital funding has also been allocated to my Department in Budget 2016. In the main, this funding will be used to support smaller scale projects in local youth services, such as refurbishments, health and safety works, and accessibility improvements.

It is anticipated that details of the new capital funding scheme will be announced early in the New Year.